Cloud Storage Solutions (Host Software Group)

We are excited to announce release of IBM XIV SRA 2.1.0 that is compatible with VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0.

Release Highlights:

Support for VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0.1 (and 5.0.0)

Support for XIV GEN2 (microcode 10.2.X) and for XIV GEN3 (microcode 11.X).

About SRM 5.0:

Site Recovery Manager 5.0 includes three major additions to the workflow capabilities:

Planned migration

Reprotection

Failback

About IBM XIV SRA 2.1.0 with VMware SRM 5.0:

The IBM XIV SRA extends SRM capabilities and allows it to seamlessly employ XIV replication and mirroring as part of the SRM comprehensive Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) solution.Using the IBM XIV SRA, VMware administrators can automate the failover of an XIV system at the primary SRM site to an XIV system at a recovery (secondary) SRM site. Immediately upon a failover, the ESX/ESXi servers at the secondary SRM site start using the replicated datastores on the mirrored volumes of the secondary XIV system.

That's great ! But where can I get It ?

It's already available at the VMware download page of SRM 5.0.1 (You can click on the "Show Details" link inside the "Components" section to reveal the list of SRA components with IBM XIV SRA included)

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